: ' .. .:.... . ' ' ______________ : ________ : ' \ / .. .:. .. \ / : : \ /_________ \ / . .. ... .. . : .\ / /___ /\ \ / ______________ ___ _. : \ / / \ / \ \/ / \ \ \ \ \ . ...:..\ / _______/ \/ \ ___/__ / / / / / : /\ / / \ \/ \ / / / . sH! ' / \/ / / / \ / / . ... .:.... .. . :/ _______/ / / / _______/__ ___ __ .\ / / / / / / / / / / / \ / / / / / / / / / / / . . \ /\______/ / / / / \___ / / : \/ ____ \ / / / / / : \ / \ /\____/\ / / : : ________\/ \ / \ / / : ' \ / \/ \ /\ / : . ..:.. . \ / \/ \ / \ / \ / . ' : \/ F A N G \ / : ' ____ \ / . . .. .. .:.. . \ / presents \ / . . \/ \/ : : . ..:.. , : Artist......: Wire : Album.......: Mind Hive : : Label.......: Pinkflag .. .:.. . Genre.......: Indie : Catnr.......: PF25CD . ' Source......: CD , ; Rip.date....: 2020-01-24 Str.date....: 2020-01-24 Quality.....: 263kbps/44.1kHz/Joint Stereo . :.. .:. Url.........: http://www.facebook.com/WIRE.pinkflag ' ' , ________ ________ \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / # title time \ / \/ \/ 1. Be Like Them 3:52 2. Cactused 3:35 3. Primed And Ready 2:44 4. Off The Beach 2:22 5. Unrepentant 5:02 6. Shadows 2:45 7. Oklahoma 3:08 8. Hung 7:54 9. Humming 3:29 ______ \ / ________ Runtime 34:51 ,\ /... . . .... .... \ / ' Size 69.08 ______ :\/ ', \ / , \ / ' '... ..\ /.. .. .....:. .. .... .. . ..\ /. : Release Notes: \/ , \/ , ' ' ,: The career of Wire, frontman Colin Newman once proudly :, : announced, is ôa one-way tripö. ItÆs not an idle boast. On stage : :' today, you might get one song from their ôclassicö 70s albums ': ,: or their first reunion in the 80s, but itÆs best not to book a :, : ticket under that assumption: whole tours have gone by where : :' Wire barely acknowledged they had a past at all. ': ,: :, : Wire Mind Hive album art work : :' Wire Mind Hive album art work ': ,: ItÆs an approach thatÆs infected the music they make. If Mind :, : Hive were the debut by a hot new band, you suspect whatÆs left : :' of the music press would be doing their nut over it. It feels ': ,: sinewy and stripped back, precise and pop-facing even on its :, : roomiest tracks. Hung rests on one chord for eight minutes, but : :' the vocal melody that weaves around it is so strong, you hardly ': ,: notice. One of its signature sounds is a kind of tightly :, : controlled chaos û corrosively distorted guitars and feedback : :' hemmed in by tense rhythms and some of the most ': ,: straightforwardly beautiful tunes Wire have ever come up with. :, : The other is more lushly electronic, vaguely recalling the : :' moments on Brian EnoÆs Before and After Science when he pressed ': ,: his ambient experiments into the service of gorgeous, hazy :, : ballads. : :' ': ,: The loveliest of the latter category is Mind HiveÆs closing :, : track, Humming, which, with an impressive degree of perversity, : :' uses its drowsy synth textures and echoing guitars to support a ': ,: lyric that prickles with anxiety: at the rise of political :, : populism, alleged Russian interference in elections, the : :' creeping dread that things may have changed not merely for the ': ,: worse, but irrevocably so. In fact, thereÆs no mistaking the :, : sense of fear that runs through vast swathes of Mind Hive. : :' Cactused depicts the world as starkly, implacably divided, a ': ,: longstanding obsession with the way reality can be distorted û :, : ôthe problems of bad reception resulting in blurred perception,ö : :' as 1978Æs French Film Blurred put it û retooled for the ': ,: adversarial world of social media: ôitÆs a throw-down, itÆs a :, : tag-team angle, itÆs a face-off, itÆs a cheap low-blow.ö Shadows : :' is even grimmer: a vocal evenly relating an incident of ': ,: apparently state-sanctioned mass murder, set once again to music :, : thatÆs weirdly charming in its simplicity. : :' ': ,: ItÆs the strange, appealing sound of a band doggedly following :, : their own path, eyes fixed forward. : :' ': : ' '.. ..' .. . :........... . . . . ............: . . ______________ ______________ \ / \ / \ / Shout out to all our homies from: \ / \ / \ / \ / iPC BOSS HiT2000 1way UKi i8 RNS \ / \ / RAGEMP3 MANDY DV8 pLAN9 BUTT \ / \ / \ / \/ ____ ____ \/ \ / F A N G \ / \/ 2 0 2 0 \/